Computer tricks

To fascinate friends and watch their face filled with expressions of shock, curiosity and amusement has always given me a great pleasure. Hence as an IT student it is obvious that I should write my first article in this blog on the simple fascinating things one can do to amaze ones friends on the computer. The following tricks are all safe and won’t do any harm to your computers as I personally have tried all these tricks on my friends and family.

Incorrect:

If the victim uses Microsoft Word, go into the victim’s computer and change the auto-correct feature so it misspells common words. Just open Word, choose “AutoCorrect Options” from the Tools menu, and have it replace common words like “the” and “and” with wacky words like “eggplant” or “Uranus.” Be creative.

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Dark Side:

On most computer monitors, if you turn the brightness control all the way up and the contrast all the way down, the screen will appear to be blank. Do this to your victim and they will drive themselves crazy trying to “fix” their “broken” monitor.

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Lost Buttons:

Go to Start->Settings->Control Panel and find the option for your Mouse. On the Buttons tab, change the buttons configuration to switch the primary and secondary buttons of the mouse. Now when the victim clicks with the mouse, nothing will work as expected.

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Cursed Cursors:

This idea is great for playing a prank on your friends in the computer lab. Plug an extra mouse into one of your victim's spare USB ports and snake the wire back into your computer which should preferably be near the victim’s computer. When the victim is working away, give the spare mouse an occasional small nudge. (This is especially funny if your victim is actually trying to use the mouse at the time.)

Watch this space for more tricks…..